The Reality of Grief

The Reality of Grief

by | Nov 14, 2018 | Thursday Musing

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor...
Grief Has Its Own Itinerary

Grief Has Its Own Itinerary

by | Oct 24, 2018 | Thursday Musing

Grief… happens upon you, it’s bigger than you. There is a humility that you have to step into, where you surrender to being moved through the landscape of grief by grief itself. And it has its own time frame, it has its own itinerary with you, it has its own power...
We Can Never Know

We Can Never Know

by | Oct 18, 2018 | Thursday Musing

“We can never know in the beginning, in giving ourselves to a person, to a work, to a marriage or to a cause, exactly what kind of love we are involved with. When we demand a certain specific kind of reciprocation before the revelation has flowered completely we find...
The Happiness of Life

The Happiness of Life

by | Oct 10, 2018 | Thursday Musing

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What Keeps the World Alive?

What Keeps the World Alive?

by | Oct 4, 2018 | Thursday Musing

Creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole...
Sometimes Hope Is a Radical Act

Sometimes Hope Is a Radical Act

by | Sep 26, 2018 | Thursday Musing

Sometimes hope is a radical act, sometimes a quietly merciful response, sometimes a second wind, or just an increased awareness of goodness and beauty. Maybe you didn’t get what you prayed for, but what you got instead was waking to the momentousness of life, the...